HEAL Institute pavilion

What it is. One of the resident pavilions at Dubai’s Museum of the Future, part of the “Journey of the Pioneers” complex led by Atelier Brückner, which received the Blooloop Innovation Award, 1st Place, Exhibit category, in 2024.

The Dubai Future Foundation immerses visitors in a world 50 years from now through three levels: a Space Station, the HEAL Institute for ecosystem regeneration, and ALWAHA for wellbeing and senses.

— Atelier Brückner, project page for Journey of the Pioneers.

The problem behind it. Preventive and longevity medicine is one of the most-discussed and least-publicly-comprehensible areas of contemporary healthcare. The literature on the science is dense, the consumer story is dominated by supplements and biohacking, and the clinical translation is uneven. A serious institution wanted to render the next forty years of preventive practice as something a visitor could walk through and feel, not just hear about.

What I did. I served as a Science Advisor through The Life Robotic, part of an interdisciplinary group of designers, scientists, and clinicians supporting the lead exhibition team. The pavilion design was led by Atelier Brückner with the Museum of the Future’s Sandbox team. Adjacent pavilions in the same complex were developed with Marshmallow Laser Feast, Superflux, and Certain Measures. My slice of the work was scientific review and content judgment in late-stage production: keeping the speculative future tethered to research that actually exists today.